A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to…

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to.…

— Louise Erdrich

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business…

— Agatha Christie

“Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book.”

— Chrys Fey

A lot of people talk to me about writing lyrics and it is obvious they are really paying attention to the fact that ours…

— Ryan Ross

Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.

— Annie Dillard

The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without…

— Walt Whitman

That's the secret to anything we write. You have to bring your experience to it. Otherwise, how do you expect anyone else to connect…

— Philip Rosenthal

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what…

— Julien Green

When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So…

— Pedro Almodovar

“When you're (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like…

— Shauna Niequist

I have a dark and dreadful secret. I write poetry... I believe poetry is a primal impulse within all of us. I believe we…

— Stephen Fry

Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.

— Eliot Spitzer

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

— Susan Sontag

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest…

— Jean Craighead George